Salvadorans. terrified by the brutality of the bloodletting. are fleeing in increasing numbers to their countrys main backer. the United States. While some would like to deport these warweary Salvadorans. I support the proposed freeze on the deportation of unauthorized Salvadoran refugees. Surely our Nation must bear some burden for their misery. the misery that we are helping to perpetrate in that region. But a freeze on deportation merely treats the symptoms of the crisis in Central America. just like the proposed amendments to our Immigration and Naturalization Act with respect to illegal entry through Mexico. Part of the cause of the problem in the area is the United States. whose policies of intervention in the region. both in the present and in the past. have helped to polarize the region ideologically. politically. and economically. If this polarization is to be reversed. the United States must terminate policies that militarize our southern neighbors.
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